Jacob Sullum has some comments (see May 22, Feb. 5 and links from there).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Point of Law- Top Ten DO Stories of 2008Kevin LaCroix (DO Diary) looks back at the implications of a tumultuous year for directors and officers liability, corporate governance, and boardroom insurance....Walter Olson
- Autism-Vaccine Attorney Bill Tops $2 MillionKathleen Seidel is applying more scrutiny to bills submitted to the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Earlier at Overlawyered here and here....Walter Olson
- Medical device preemptionA big defense victory in the Medtronic cardiac defibrillator litigation. (Beck Herrmann/Miller)....Walter Olson
- Litigation Issues Arising from the Credit CrisisAllen Farrell (Harvard), Jennifer Bethel and Gang Hu (both Babson) have this paper on SSRN which is part of a forthcoming Brookings volume on the credit crisis (Harvard Corporate Governance Blog via B. Janell Grenier at BenefitsBlog, who notes the...Walter Olson
- A site called Asbestos.comBill Childs does some digging into whos behind an ostensibly independent source of information on the dangerous mineral....Walter Olson
- Top Ten DO Stories of 2008
- Volokh
- The USSR's Role in the Middle East Goes Down the Memory Hole:One thing I find interesting in reading various authors who discuss the history of the Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Palestinian conflict is how the role of the USSR in exacerbating the conflict, and...David Bernstein
- Gupta Draws Fire:Who would have thought that President-elect Obama's plan to nominate Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the next Surgeon General would be so controversial? Paul Krugman thinks Gupta wrongly criticized Michael Moore's...Jonathan Adler
- The Comstock Case, Gonzales v. Raich, and the Limits of Federal Power:I agree with Eugene that United States v. Comstock, today's Fourth Circuit decision invalidating a federal statute allowing indefinite civil commitment of "sexually dangerous" persons who have finished serving...Ilya Somin
- Why the Sunstein Pick is Good For Legal Academics:...Orin Kerr
- Lori Drew Hearing Update:This morning Judge Wu of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles held a hearing on our motion to dismiss in the Lori Drew case. I argued for the defense, and...Orin Kerr
- The USSR's Role in the Middle East Goes Down the Memory Hole: